"Oh, it's Brother Yang, why don't you say anything when you come. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Yuan Shikai pretended to see Yang Chao at this time, and immediately pulled him cordially.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Seeing that Zhongtang was busy, I didn't dare to disturb it." ”

Yuan Shikai smiled: "Brother Yang, what do you think of my soldiers? ”

Yang Chao said: "Mighty Division! ”

Yuan Shikai said: "It's still the division of tigers and wolves." ”

Yang Chao said: "Lord Yuan has trained his troops well, and his subordinates admire him. ”

Yuan Shikai said: "It's a pity. Guns are available, and machine guns and cannons are missing. ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "As long as you have money, I'm afraid that you won't have guns or cannons." ”

Yuan Shikai laughed.

Soon a few sturdy soldiers carried several large boxes up the platform, put down the boxes, and the soldier with the command flag next to him immediately opened them, and slowly two boxes of silver dollars.

Yuan Shikai pointed and said, "Look, this official is not short of money. ”

Of course, Yuan Shikai is not short of money, and Zhili is not a poor province, he has been the governor of Zhili for two years, and it should not be difficult to make millions of taels of silver. And Yuan Shikai's ability to make money is also quite good, he has a staff member who is specifically responsible for making money, Liang Shiyi, who is known as the God of Wealth.

In addition, Yuan Shikai has been in charge of diplomacy for two years, and his relationship with foreigners is quite good, I heard that Zaifeng was going to kill Yuan Shikai, and the British ministers rushed to intercede, and the customs, which were also controlled by the British, were not difficult to give Zhili an extra tariff every year.

Yuan Shikai gives millions of dollars in gifts every year, and where Prince Qing is, every time he makes a move, it is 100,000 taels.

Another point is that Beiyang has the power to mint money, and Yuan Shikai's batch of silver dollars is the Beiyang silver dollar he minted.

Since there is money, it is a customer, Yang Chao smiled: "I don't know how much Lord Yuan wants?" ”

made two good deals with Yuan Shikai.

The first was a legitimate business, Yuan Shikai purchased a hundred machine guns and two hundred cannons.

The second is a favor transaction, Yang Chao sent three million taels of sterling silver, and exchanged it for silver dollars with Yuan Shikai.

Of course, there is money interest, because the coinage will not be 100% with precious metals, now the Beiyang Silver Dollar Bureau is mainly minted copper coins, the monetary system of the Qing Dynasty developed to the end of the Qing Dynasty, very chaotic, there are a large number of Western silver dollars in circulation, and the emperors of the past dynasties cast empty copper coins in circulation, as well as the bank bills issued by foreigners, the bank bills issued by the money bank, the silver bills issued by the ticket number and so on.

The Eight-Nation Coalition plundered Beijing, and after Yuan Shikai became the governor of Zhili, he had no money to use at all, so he could only mint money.

Entrusted to Zhou Fu's son Zhou Xuexi, Zhou Xuexi bought a coinage machine from the United States, mainly minting copper coins, collecting copper coins from the people, and then pressing them into copper plates, and also buying copper from abroad to mint money, with higher profits, it is said that it can reach sixty percent profits.

Of course, the Beiyang Silver Dollar Bureau also minted silver dollars, but it always costs to use silver, so there are not many mints.

And Yang Chao happened to have silver in his hand, and it was pure silver, which was dug up from the bottom of the sea by the spaceship, although it did not use atomic-level decomposition ability, but the purity also reached the point where it could not be detected in this era, no matter who tested it, it would be determined that it was 100% pure silver.

For Yang Chao, these silver must be spent, and Yuan Shikai will be exchanged for silver dollars, and they will be deposited directly in HSBC, and finally HSBC will mint them into silver coins, so it is better to give them to Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai can also get at least 300,000 taels of silver from it.

Therefore, everyone is very satisfied with these two businesses.

Yang Chao got an order from Yuan Shikai for 100 heavy machine guns, the price of a heavy machine gun is 20 times that of a rifle, a total value of 80,000 taels of silver, 200 70-caliber howitzers, each priced at 4,500 taels, with 100 shells, 200 guns with a total value of 900,000 taels, and a total of 980,000 taels of silver.

But Yang Chao's minting interest of three million taels of sterling silver is 300,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to giving it to Yuan Shikai for nothing, and he promised to exchange three million taels with him next year.

In Yuan Shikai's opinion, this is clearly Yang Chao showing favor to him and giving him a gift in disguise.

Refusing Yuan Shikai's invitation to dinner, Yang Chao hurriedly contacted a British coal ship and went south while sitting.

Not in a hurry to go back for the New Year, it's twenty-nine, Chinese New Year's Eve must be spent on the ship, but to go back to prepare.

Yang Chao didn't expect the undercurrent in Beijing to be so turbulent, Zaifeng desperately tried his best to win himself over, and Yuan Shikai was sharp, it seems that this is planning a showdown.

Thinking that Yuan Shikai might have to merge with Zaifenghuo, Yang Chao was a little excited, of course he knew that the result must be that Yuan Shikai taught Yuan Shikai how to behave, the Beiyang Army is not the same as playing with that group of Eight Banners, Yuan Shikai has practiced for ten years, if he can't deal with a group of Eight Banners who eat and drink, it is too much to underestimate Yuan Shikai.

Once Yuan Shikai cleans up Zaifeng, I am afraid that the drastic new deal will not be able to stop it, whoever stands in the way will die, after all, Yuan Shikai is a Westernist, even if he is not really engaged in Westernization, just carrying this banner, he must do this, or that sentence, some people do Western, not because he likes to do Western, but because he is a Westerner.

Yuan Shikai has a deep imprint of Huai Jun on his body, and Huai Jun has long been taken to the road of foreign affairs by Li Hongzhang, which is a one-way road that has no turn if he wants to.

After Yuan Shikai merged with Zaifeng, he could only bite the bullet and continue to do foreign affairs, and at the same time began to suppress those opposition by force, and China should have changed greatly.

But Yang Chao couldn't help but be nervous, Yuan Shikai didn't say anything about winning Zaifeng, but what about after that? Will the diehards retaliate like crazy, with the kind of nature of the diehards, it is really possible to do it, that group of people may not be how brave, but the IQ of that group of people is really flattering. It was this group of people who fooled Cixi into fighting with the Eight-Nation Alliance, and it was they who told Cixi that the Boxers were invulnerable and could be of great use.

There is no reason for this kind of person to talk about, not to mention that Yuan Shikai destroyed Zaifeng, it is strange that they don't work hard.

With Yuan Shikai's ability, it probably won't take much time to clean up this group of people, but China is too big, and once it gets into chaos, I'm afraid it won't be calm for three or five years.

And what will happen later, whether the foreigners will intervene, Yang Chao now knows more about the reasons why Li Hongzhang gave up being president, I heard that a very important reason is that when Li Hongzhang consulted the British Hurd, Hurd believed that "the only feasible solution is to let the existing dynasty maintain the status quo ante first, and when the Chinese feel that its decree is not working, they will solve it themselves." ”

The British wanted China to remain the status quo, so Li Hongzhang gave up the idea of becoming president and reached an agreement with the Zaifeng faction.

It is not said whether the foreigners will interfere again. There are also a large number of strengths with their own ghosts, such as Kang Liang's royalists, such as Sun Paoge's alliance, etc., if these strengths are also involved, I am afraid that they will not be able to be sent away in three and five years.

Thinking that the great chaos of the Republic of China period might come early, Yang Chao not only felt a little afraid.

"!"

I couldn't help but shout in my heart.

Fight and fight, fight early and overrise early, as stiff as now, the country is like a zombie, Yang Chao is also annoyed.

Fight early and end early, at most, you can't catch up with the fruits of World War I, and World War II may be able to catch up.

This is Yang Chao's worst plan.

He must hurry back to prepare, since he is going to fight, he has to choose to stand in line, Zhou Fu used to be Li Hongzhang's cronies, and now he is Yuan Shikai's biggest supporter, once the fight starts, Shandong Iron will definitely be on Yuan Shikai's side, Yang Chao has to discuss with Zhou Fu to see how to protect Shandong to the greatest extent.

As soon as I arrived in Yantai, I immediately rushed to Yamen.

"My lord, there is a letter!"

As soon as he entered the yamen, the old official Wang Cheng told Yang Chao a piece of news.

"Whose letter?"

Yang Chao asked, this thought, everyone has played with telegraph, Westerners have started to play on the phone, and they are still writing letters so old-fashioned.

"I don't know, the person who came told me to be handed over to the adult."

Yang Chao took the letter, the envelope was empty, and when he opened the letterhead, the content was very simple.

"Shunde Hotel gathered. Guangli! ”

The signature is Guangli, isn't Guangli connected together a Kang word?

Kang Youwei!

Yang Chao knew it immediately.

If he hadn't gone to Beijing this time, Yang Chao wouldn't have guessed this guy, but he had just come back from Beijing, and he happened to learn some information from Xiao Chengzi, the eunuch next to the emperor, and knew that this time Zaifeng suddenly rose up to win over himself, which had something to do with this Kang Youwei.

Xiao Chengzi said: Mr. Kang wrote a letter to the emperor and said a lot of good things about Lord Yang......